Things I don't quite like about California

First off- the traffic. Honestly many people who has heard of California traffic but hasn't been in it, is really is worse than it sounds. Especially near those larger cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego where the traffic is so bad you can park your car for 5 minutes because you would only have moved a foot. When we touched down in California at the LAX airport last summer, we were greeted by my aunt, we quickly got something to eat and then went on our merry way to San Diego. It's a two and a half hour drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, and with the traffic, it took 4 1/2 to 5 hours. 

UnSuperMomma. Make Aheads Part 3: Oatmeal Balls. 2013. N.p.

But seriously though, my aunt lives about 15 minutes from UCSD and when I visited the university we left the house an hour before just in case there was any traffic what-so-ever. There happened to not have really bad traffic and even had about 20 minutes to go sightseeing or just plainly drive around the area a little bit. 

Secondly, parking. Finding a parking spot is a gift basically. It's like when you're going to a concert and you don't go super early and get the "closest" parking spot you can find which is like two states away, that's what it feels like anyway. From living in a small town, the issue of not being to find any parking was really frustrating. Honestly, if I do get accepted to UCSD or UCLA, I will most likely always have a longboard, penny board or just a normal skateboard, for those times where I'm in a bit of a crunch time and can't find parking. 

Lastly the thing that I'll miss most if I were to move to California will be the nice people in my area. It's really hard to find a genuinely nice person in larger cities, who don't expect anything from you. For example in the airport in my town, they're all like "Have fun in _____!" or "Welcome home." whereas California won't acknowledge you or aren't as friendly. However that's just how I was treated, I can't characterize the whole state of being that way.